V26 is miles ahead of any of the other builds before... If You clean flash V24 and follow my optimized setup in op2 your mega will literally feel like a newer more powerful phone...between screen Improvements for color saturation, sharpness, and clarity...to the performance and responsiveness of the touchscreen and keyboard which will go as fast as you can type without a hiccup....to the battery life and run temp v24 is the pinnacle of every mod tweak and optimization from 4.1.1 thru 4.4.4...enjoy your new Mega 6.3

I9200 USERS READ
***Megakat V17 for the i9200 is identical to megakat v14 for the i9205 only named different to separate them for less confusion

V17s one of the best roms I've ever made and by far the best rom I've ever built for the mega...it's refinement in every possible way, camera, audio, call quality, speed, battery etc I pretty much went in and optimized everything possible

V26 Features: same tweaks you know and love from Megakat but using stock i9200 firmware, bootloader, and baseband means no kernel needed which was causing some significant issues for some...also means fm radio stays in tact, as well as any other i9200 specific features...basically it cuts out the only source of issues...the kernel which is the main goal and benefit without having to give up the speed, performance, battery life, or stability of MegaKat ...enjoy

V26 Update: extremely fast...the fastest I've ever seen the mega...everything's instant and buttery smooth...with performance that feels as fast as the extremely high 9000+/- quadrant scores

V26 Features:

Deodex
Zip aligned
Apps2sd built in system
*SU binary needs re rooted in recovery: see instructions
Super Fast
Optimizations from megafire builds, note 3 kk and jb roms, as well as my several other of my builds to make this rom the best possible
Extremely fluid animations
Lock Screen Zero Lag or Delay
Camera Zoom and Shutter are instant...photos are taken so fast and clear that I'm actually amazed...and they're storing to external sd that fast
3d Graphics and Rendering Optimized
Framelocked at 60fps throughout the entire ui and system, even thru most benchmarks
Fastest Browser of any of my devices or builds...back loading previous page is instant
One of my cleanest builds in over 135 roms to date on 31 devices
All Knox Apks and Lib files removed from system
Rebuilt touchwiz launcher and system ui for faster rendering and app launching
Dalvik and Cache optimizations

Basically...If you enjoyed my megafire roms your gonna love Megakat

Note: due to some binary issues with kk and all the knox and selinux junk, I pre installed all the super su files and binaries but full root is done in Philz recovery enabling my supersu binaries in the rom...no more red lines on boot screen

Instructions: YOU MUST READ AND FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS EXACTLY OR NO ROOT/FAILED FLASH IS POSSIBLE

2. Use odin to flash udne4 base rom in pda slot of odin...i use odin 3.09
3. After odin flashing stock kk flash this....
Philz recovery: flash this in pda slot of odin exactly the same way as the stock rom before it

Mega i9200 Users Instructions...thanks to shivwest for pulling the rom zip and some great reasoning skills to persuade me to give you guys your own custom build with fm intact..the instructions are identical to flashing and rooting and the i9205 except using this i9200 stock kk odin rom

2. Use odin to flash udne4 base rom in pda slot of odin...i use odin 3.09
3. After odin flashing stock kk flash this....
Philz recovery: flash this in pda slot of odin exactly the same way as the stock rom before it

***Known Issues: the only issue is a bug in KK base rom that causes glitch video playback of recorded videos using mega camera...by simply using mx player with s/h local encoding they play back fine

Thanks to Phil for his amazing modded cwm
Thanks to chainfire for the supersu and binaries as always
Thanks to Shivwest for the i9200 rom zip and for getting me to do the build for you i9200 users...if you have an i9200 you should thank shiv for your build

***The choice to flash my roms is your choice and your choice alone...i take no responsibility for what you do with your device...
***Please do not copy or use my work without my permission
***Please do not post or mirror my roms without my permission

7. Disable google location history and location reporting...doesn't affect maps or g now at all only stops a ton of data mining and wake locks

8. Never use power saving mode with my roms...i rebuild the power controller so you'll get way better battery life without psm

Enjoy the new build...latterly for those who want v10 on crack and steroids...use multicore controller or setcpu to max throttle the cpu to 1.7 ghz full time on performance governor lol then you're head will be spinning

Fixing Viper4Android on Kit Kat::

Basically on kit kat the new audio codec has different drivers and integral system frameworks...one new change is the low power audio integration...which has been a part of android for a while but with the changes to kk it interferes with viper...so i figured out the viper apk and driver wasn't properly disabling the lpa kernel drivers...so an easy fix to guarantee viper consistency...

Using root explorer or root browser...
System
Open Build.prop as editable text
Scroll down a few "paragraphs" of code until you find these 3 codes...

lpa.decode=true
tunnel.decode = true
tunnel.audiovideo.decode=true

***if you've installed viper it may have set one or two to =false already...see below
Now viper will properly change one sometimes 2 to false...but all 3 need to be =false...

Below is a collection of HD Backgrounds from every major flagship device in the last few years, app, apks, mods, and stock sounds...if you have anything you'd like to add or share just post it and I'll add it to the OP

To use KK Launcher
1. Update Google Now In Store
2. Open Google Now and Update Language pack
Settings, Voice, Offline Language Package*
3. Open KK launcher and set it up
4. All set...Enjoy rocking the official stock fully working KK Launcher

or just come from another KK rom?
because even KK aosp roms give you the KK bootloader i believe

No the bootloader does not get flashed in roms only in odin...and no you have to follow the instructions like I wrote them...or else I wouldn't have bothered writing them out specifically...you get status flashing errors if you don't follow my method

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